Notepad++

[bearophile]

Sergey Gromov:
> Sure, TextPad uses a dozen of simple hacks specific to lexing
> programming languages.  They're ad-hoc and they're limited to exactly
> what TextPad authors thought were important.

Today the difference isn't much important because CPUs are fast. But on Windows with a Pentium3 Scintilla was very slow. TextPad was fast enough even for very quick fingers. (TextPad may even contain some parts coded in assembly). TextPad on Windows is very fast :-)

Bye,
bearophile